OK. I admit that it has been over fifty years since I graduated high school, but as far as I remember there are only three co-equal branches of government; the Executive, the Legislative, and the Judicial. President Trump, head of the Executive Branch has appointed Elon Musk to lead a Department of Government Efficiency.
Mr. Musk jumped right into the task as soon as the President took office. We all have heard some of the things our tax dollars have been spent on. Maybe we were shocked at where that money went, but we were not surprised at how much. With the deficit being what it is, why are we spending money on programs that not only are of no benefit to the United States, but are wastes of money as well?
One can't help but think that those in government don't really support those programs but rather that they support the, shall we say, "service charges" paid to those in government who facilitate those payments for those programs. And those in government are not happy that a large source of revenue for them has been discovered.
Nobody voted for Elon Musk. We are, however, expected to bow down to unelected bureaucrats anonymously running "Independent Agencies."
Thinking back to my school days, I cannot -- try as I may -- recall any
mention of a fourth branch of government in the Constitution, that
branch being "Independent Agencies." I do remember, however, Paul Harvey
reporting in the 1980's that officials in the State Department saw no
reason to act on President Reagan's policies because he was not going to
be President after a few years anyway.
The government needs to be brought under control. We need it to be answerable to the citizens. We cannot have a government that feels it can do whatever it wants with no consequences.
Nor can we afford it.
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